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CUPTOH AVMS • CINCINNA11 20, OHIO
THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
eration, To this office he has been JERUSALEM ORPHANS
re-elected every year since, with one
IN BITTEREST NEED
exception. In 19(11 :tit - . Gompers was
appointed a representative of the in- Want of Food, Clothing, Medicine for
terests of labor on the National Civic
Little Tots Is .Painful Problem.
Federation, of •h , eli he subsequently
became first vice-president.
NE \V YORK.-Rabbi S. Blumen-
In 1918 lie came to England as the thal has receised a circular letter from
Studies of Careers of Lord Reading, Justice Brandeis, Samuel
representative, in fact the ambassa- Nissim Dation. Grand Rabbinate of
Gompers and Otto H. Kahn, Oscar Straus, Baruch, Montague,
dor. of sited States labor to their Jerusalem, in ss hich it is pointed out
Samuel, Show Varied and Brilliant Services.
colleagues in the Allies' countries.
that the war has produced many or-
Mr. Gompers has been instrumental phans in Jerusalem, and that these
Leaders in Different Spheres Uniting With Cause of Human in introducing all eight-hour working have been svithout care or attention of
Liberty, Have Added to Glory of Jewish History and Made day for mechanics and laborers in the any kind. a prey to hunger, sickness.
government service, and a ten-hour tin! lack tii clothes and all the other
Sure the Triumph of Democracy.
maximum day for street railway work- hardships consequent to the devasta-
ers. He also secured the regulation tion of war.
survey is intended to present dia, :Mil shortly alter entering this or- of child labor anti the control of
This frightful condition remained
iihne the careers of some of the lice visited India in order to study po-
sweating.
limit the Blumenthal-Zion Orphanage.
pins mai Jewish leaders among the lineal and social conditions there, with
The Hon, Oscar S. Straus.
I stablished by Rabbi Abraham Bin
etc nations and the contribu- a view to the introduction of tar-
Born at Otterberg, Germany, in menthal upon the appeal of the Chief
lions which they are making towards reaching reforms in a liberal and
1850; settled in the United States at Rabbi, ameliorated them somewhat
ied cause .\
in this world-wide
the
H
, democratic direction.
the age of four. \1 r. Straus is the The orphans are now being fed.
The Earl of Reading.
struggle.
clothed and housed, visited by a phy-
'To the Jew the present tsar is of 1 Born in London in 18(0.
Lord first Jew to attain Cabinet rank in that
sician and taught by competent teach-
three-fold interest and concern. .\s Reading has created many precedents. country. Ile was originally a lawyer,
a member of a nation which has sof- He is the first British Attorney qcn- bu tafter eight years at the bar he re- ers. But money is needed to maintain
krt.,' the limiest cruelty and oppres- eral to hold Cabinet rank. He is the tired and entered his father's firm of this atirk.
Jewish Civilian War-Leaders Include
Judges, Ambassadors, Members of Both
Parliament and Congress, Leaders of
Labor and Magnates of Stock Exchange
MARCHING ON TO PALESTINE
For the First Time in Nearly 2,000 Years Jews
Are Able to Fight Under Their Own Flag
In Dafase cf a Land of Their Own.
'Fite Grand Rabbinate has suggested
merchants.
appreciate perhaps noire fully than a Viscount, an Earl, or to attain to the
Mr. Straus has been On three occa- that a committee be formed of rabbis
and
people interested in the Mill, it.
others the sacred character of the 11:stinction of Lord Chief Justice of sions American Ambassador at Con-
peisi aq tpas 8tilM0110 all
work of fighting for liberty and England. He is the first English Jew stantinople. On the first occasion
justice to be entrusted with an Embassy, and having been nominated by President ceive contributions in response to the
This is a picture of some of the volunteers of the Jewish Legion marching
As a loyal citizen of the country he is the first British Ambassador to Cleveland, a Democrat, on the second the children. He has written to Mr.
in which he lives, he is obviously be entrusted with such wide powers by President McKinley, a Republican, Nathan Straus asking him to .,;(1 iu down Fifth Avenue, New York City, on their way to the training camp In
Canada. They arc carrying two flags—Old Glory—and the Jewish flag, blue
prepared to make the supreme sac- as trose which he enjoys at Washing- and on the third by President Roose- the necessary and worthy,wor't
ritice for the sake of his home and ton. Anti Lord Reading is not yet by velt. a Progressive. From 190h until appeal:
1/r. I'll. Klein, 137 \Vest and white, with the six cornered star of David in the center.
mother country. any means at the end of his career.
1909 lie was Secretary to the Depart- One Hundred Nineteenth street, New
Of Jewish heroism on the battle- The story of his career reads like a ment of Commerce in Mr. Roosevelt's York; Dr. Bernard 1>rachinati, 1.28
*
field, of the Zion Mule Corps, of the romance. \\11ile still a boy he ran Cabinet. Previously he had been ap- \Vest One Twenty-first street, New
*
*
THE JEWISH LEGION.
Jewish Battalions in England and away to sea. Later he entered the pointed an American representative York: Dr. M. Flyainson, 115 East
America and t ellinnumerable l'ew- Stock Exchange, Where lie failed. on the Permanent Arbitration Court Ninety-fifth street, New fork: Rev.
*
JerilSale111,
ish heroes scattered throughout the Nothing daunted. he determined to at The Hague.
I/r. II. Pereira Mendes, '19 Central
*
Thou illy of the king!
non-Jewish regiments of the Entente read for the Bar, to which he was
In the United States !sir. Straus l'ark \Vest; Mr. S. Bernstein, treas-
* The Lord (Ind 14 Israel
armies, much has been written. It called at the age of twenty-seven. He has filled innumerable public offices. urer, 55 \\rest One Hundred Tenth
*
Iles wrought u wondrous:*
has been computed that of the Jews speedily made up for lost time, and Ile was until recently chairman of the street.
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thing;
of British birth tell per cent had en- soon acquainted there a position in the New York Public Service Commis-
* A byword and it mocking
listed in the Army and Navy before front rank until he became one of the sion, and is an ex-president of the
*
Through centuries of shame, .*
SPANISH COLLEGES
the Derby Scheme came into opera- most brilliant and successful adv.- New York Board of Trade and Trans-
* Ile comes to mist! thee from the *
GREET JERUSALEM
boil. A relatively large number cafes that England possessed.
portation, of the National Primary
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dust
.*
were decorated for bravery on the In 1898, then plain Mr. Rufus League, and of the Amereian Social
*
And 14111141 again thy name.
*
battlefield, six being awarded the Isaacs, he became a King's Counsel; Service Association, and a founder
*
CA I I i /..--The professors of the uni-
it Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
most coveted of all honors—the Vic- in 19114 he was made a bencher of the and vice-president of the National versities of Madrid, Granada, Barce-
*
lift up Illy head and see
.*
Nliddle Temple; in 1910 he was ap- Civic Federation and the Inatrnational lona. Oviedo, \'alericia and
toria Cross.
* The mother may forget her child, *
Pointed Solicitor General and within Law Association.
Heroes and Leaders.
• Saragossa have telegraphed cordial
*
Bat
(loll
remembers
thee!
*
This brief survey, it is hoped, will a few months Attorney General, be-
He has lectured and written on a greetings to Dr. \\'eizmann on the
give some idea of the contributions ing raised to the Bench as Lord Chief variety of subjects—Political Philoso- foundation of the Hebrew University
The swords of many nations
i*
which Jews are making for the Al- Justice three years later. He had been phy, Religious Liberty, the Public in Jerusalsni.
*
Have made of thee u prey,
*
elected to Parliament for Reading in Service, Diplomacy, International
lied cause behind the battle lines.
The telegram states: 'AVe hope to
* The feet of many strangers
The fascinating careers and im- 1904, and retained that seat until his Law. American Jewish History among see reborn in it the spirit of universal
*
Have
worn
thy
stones
away;
*
mense contributions to the winning elevation to the House of Lords nine others. Not only does lie occupy a reconciliation, of fraternity and jus-
* But hearken, 0 Jerusalem,
• *
of the war by great leaders in Amer- years later. most prominent position ill the Jewish tice, and the flourishing of the sciences
*
And hear a joyful sound—
*
Previous to his appointment in the life of the •nited States, but he may and arts as in the times of the great
ican Jewry, such as the Hon. Ilenry
Justice Louis D. Brandeis of the Unl .
* The bo u t of Jewish warriors
*
Morgenthau, Mr. Julius Rosenwald present year as Envoy Extraordinary also be regarded as one of the great- masters and philosophers of the Span-
ed States Supreme Court, Honorary
*
thi their itheestral ground!
.*
President of the Provisional Zionist
and Mr. Jacob IL Schiff have al- and British High Commissioner in the est Jewish leathers of modern times.
ish period of Jewish history, and pride
.*
Committee.
ready received presentation in this United States. Lord Reading's special Straus is the youngest of three of Spain, the glory of Israel."
Arise and sing, Jerusalem,
gifts had. since the outbreak of war. brothers. The eldest. a member of
publication.
*
Who art no longer dumb;
JERUSALEM UP TO DATE.
Of other., leading figures in this been employed by the State, which Congress and a prominent economist
* 0 eitadei or David,
.*
and other countries are to lie men- had already sent hint on one mission and philanthropist, was lost with his NON-JEWISH ACTORS
*
The sons of David come!
Residents of otielont ,Jerusalem will *
tioned men like the Earl of Reading, to the l • nited States. wife in the wreck of the Titanic. The
ON YIDDISH STAGE
—Don Marquis' column,
.*
snow huts In "WIttell your step." An.
in his mission to the United States
Lord Reading, respite the great second brother. Nathan, has made for
N. Y, Evening Sun.: '*
*
cleat
Jerusalem
Is
soon
to
Intro
a
Ind.,
to cement the spirit of brotherhood pressure on his time. has always been himself an enduring name in the phil-
NE1V YORK.—Several members. ley car service. A trolley ear system ******************
between the two great English- ready to place his services at the dis-lanthropic annals of the United States
all non-Jews, of the former German
Is being planned. 'rt. British authori'l
speaking races on either side of the posal of the Jewish community. ;And I and Palestine.
repertoire company at the Irsing Pal-
ties have already Installed 0 parcel
Atlantic; Mr. Baruch and Mr. Samuel has on several occasions presided at
Bernard M. Baruch,
ace 'Theatre, have joined the Yiddish
post system. They have also thoniplet•
[The capture of Jerusalem by the
Gompers, in the husbanding and con- functions held to further the interests
NIr. Baruch is an American by birth. company now producing plays at the
ell 11 venter works system.
British forces has enabled the Anglo-
trolling of the resources of the Cnited of Jewish institutions. In the United
The Zionists have dispatched a tiled- Palestine Bailin to resume its opera-
Ile i s th e c h a i rman o f th e \Va s Indus- I same house. To enable themselves to
States fur the effective carrying on of States he has supported the Zionist
hint Milt to Jerusalem to establish a tions. The 'Zionist Organization ;ot
• Beard of the t r olled States,appear on the Yiddish stage these ac-
this world struggle; and Mr. Kahn, Nlovement not only as the represent-
.
board
of health, hospitals, dispensa- Aineriell 11104 fo•UltrlIed to It $400,0)0
tors and actresses has e had to learn
had previously been
ill
I " eh he
who, though of German extraction, „tive of his Gov, rmnent, but also"
a me " 1-
ries, 1.1111104 tutu ninterity relief. An to Meet
obligations. 'The
, Is r. Hr is responsible in larger meas- Yiddish in the manner in which it is
his
private
capacity.
has thrown off the yoke of Prussian
eneineering unit Is going next, and Ow isritish military shift' tits Invited '1(. to
ins• than any other olTicial in the emsken by Jews of Russian origin,
Judge Louis Dembitz Brandeis,
Militarism and has shown his whole-
ISrWsh government Is 1101e Mobilizing open Monthlies In .1affa and other parts
' Limed States for the success of the Among those who }lase thus appeared
Born at Louisville, Ky., in 185h. ,
hearted support and enthusiasm for
selvIsh delimits to operate the double of Palestine and has einimilssittnetS It
is,itente cause.
is the former director of the German
the cause of the Allies by his liberal Mr. Brandeis has been a practicing
„
„
„
frock railroad that runs front Suez to with the tusk of buying supplies for
theatre, Rudolph ('hi stnins,
\Vac
Industries
" e
"
'war" is '"
Jaffa. the army.]
munificence and by his testimony to lawyer since 1878, and has appeared
sonic of tit, most
complete charge of war production in
the righteousness of that cause, are
famouscase,
the titled States. and on the appoint-
merely representative of thousands of that have been heard during that pe-
meqt of \I r. Baruch its powers were
huh, idual Jews who art playing no rind. He has been briefed on behalf
extended.
The
mean part among the Allied nations of the Inter-State Commerce Commis- very ,
imacu is not o nly the agency of pro-
and the United
is
States Govern:
for the triumph of democracy and shot
mew. hut it
for the diiction. but also the purchasing me-
liberty.
ocopic that lie. is in.
for the Allies, and virtually con-
Let its hope that the present unity American
of effort among the representative known. It is in this capacity that he trop'h.. world's supply of essential
occasion, in pro _l raw materials as well as of many pri-
Jeiv• of the Entente Powers is sym- appeared 011 many
!nary runuuoditics. Mr. Baruch has,
bolical of a greater unity which will ceedings of far-reaching importance
in tact, been entrusted with full power
arise after the war, mot for the purpose to their welfare.
NITS Brandeis has •
written on political, economic and over all the industries of the l'ilited
of annihilation and destruction. but
States.
for the creation of a better and hap- Jewis subjects.
President \Vilson ill his letter of ap-
Ili,: election to the Supreme Court,
pier world in which the great Hebrew
The Earl of Reading, formerly Sir
pointment described hint as "the g•n-
ideals of r ghteosness and justice will in spite of the determined and rt tent-
Rufus Isaac', one of the most broliant
eral eye of all supply departments in
less opposition of - the Interests."
advocates in the records of the Entomb
pre wail.
the field of industry." Mr. Baruch
bar, was made Lord Chief Justice of
called forth a letter from President
Herbert Louis Samue', M. P.
Great Britain in 1913, Soon after the
was Previously a \\'all Street financier
Born at Lit velum! in 1870, Sir. Sam- \\'llson ill wh:ch he announced his
beginning
of the war he came to the
of the front rank. His salary in his
uel, immediately after leaving Oxford, great reliance on Mr. Brandeis for
United States as Chairman of the An.
present office Ls one dollar a year.
ado-French Lommission and concluded
where lie took first-class honors, ante advice in all matters on which he ex-
the Anglo-French loan. He returned to
Otto Hermann KaLn.
even before, threw himself whole-
sseil himself. Shire his election to
s i„, for the last 2.11(H) years, he can tirst Jew to become Attorney General,
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BRITISH AMBASSADOR ADVOCATES JEWISH STATE IN PALESTINE
Lord Reading, the First Jew to Represent Great Britain in
Washington, Pledges His Support to Zionist Movement.
artedly into politics. Ile entered tJe Supreme Court and his removal Born 1867, at Mannheim, Germany.
Parliament (Cleveland Division) in to \\*ashington he has bleat tine of the Mr. Kahn has become specially Komi-
P102 after two unsuccessful attempts, el.c.est an Ihnost intimate advisers of in lit for his whole-hearted denuncia-
and in little Inure than three years the President. Not only has he been tiers of German ways and policies,
consulted on all !natters relating to with which, as one who was born and
held government office.
Four years late'r Mr. Samuel entered commercial and industrial problems educated in Germany, served in the
the Cabinet. Ile has been successive- on which he is Bic acknowledged an- German ariny .and spent five years in
ly Parliamentary Under-Secretary for thority in the States, Ina his sound business in that evuntry, he is well
the Home Department. Chancellor of judgment is now being drafted by the acquainted.
\Ir. Kahn lived for several years in
the Duchy of Lancaster (with a seat President for service in connection
in the Cabinet 1, Postmaster General, with the international situation.
London, where lie teas naturalized.
President of the Local Government
.Sit.official committee, cons sting of but when subsequently he returned to
Board and Home Secretary. . Colon, I Douse and Mr. Brandeis. has New York he became an American
Although no longer in office. Mr. b e en app o inted to study world prob- citizen. On the outbreak of the war
Samuel occupies one of the 'mist lents with a view to outlining the he presented his palatial residence, St.
prominent positions in the House of American attitude at the peace con- Dunstan's. in Regent Park, as a
Commons, and a future even more ference. It is understood that Colonel home for blinded soliders. Mr. Kahn
brilliant than his past is expected by House is studying the Western prob- is a partner in the financial firm of
those qualified to judge who have hems, while Mr. Brandeis has chosen Kuhn. Loeb & I o, of New York.
watched his career.
to treat with the Near Eastern ques-
\Ir. Samuel is a member of one of tion, for which his knowlt dge of and
JEWS FIGHT AND
the best-known families in Anglo-Jew- interest in the Palestin situation have
DISPERSE RIOTERS
ish public life, and has enthusiastically prepared him.
devoted himself to the furtherance of
Mr. Brandeis' adhesion to the Zion-
the aims, of Zionism.
ist Movement was announced in 1913.
11 i ishi of\
the large Jewish
Edwin Samuel Montague, M. P.
immediately he became the Conismints of Dome] has SliCeeeiled
Born in London in 1879. 'Mr. Shin- leader of the 1110VeIllf lit in the United in organizing a formidable self-de-
tague is the second son of the late States, and shortly afterward one of fense. corps. which on more than one
Lord S•aythling, better known as Sir the few statesmen to whose hands the occasion suppressed anti-Jewish out-
Samuel Montagu, who was for half direction of the movement is now en- breaks at their very commencement.
a century a pillar of Angle-Jewry.
trusted.
One day the rioters were determ-
• After leaving Cambridge, \I r. Mon-
Samuel Gompers.
ined not to disperse, b u t when the
tague entered Parliament for the
Born of Dint II parentage in 1850, self-defense corps shot three of the r e
Chesterton Division in I906. and ills- in the Ghetto district of London. Ile ringleaders, the crowd immediately
mediately became private secretary to emigrated to the l•nited States at the gave up the plan of looting and beat-
Mr. Asquith, then Chancellor of the age of 1.3, but he had then already been ing the Jews.
Exchequer. at work for three years. He is a ci-
The subsequent effort to 4incite an
In 1910 he was given office as Par- garmaker by trade, and at the age of attack on the Jews for 'murdering"
liamentary Under-Secretary of State 14 helped to organize the Cigar- the three leathers of the gangs also
for India, and four years later he en- makers' International Union, of which failed. The Jews at Homel arranged
tered the Cabinet as Chancellor of the he was subsequently secretary and an impressive protest meeting against
Duchy of Lancaster. Since then Mr. president.
the pogroms in Russia, Ukraine, Bes-
In 1881 he was a delegate to the sarabia and Galicia. They established
Montagu has held office as Financial
Secretary to the Treasury and Minis- first convention of the American Fed- a fund in aid of Jews who had been
ter of Munitions, (ration of Labor, and the following impoverished by the pogroms in Rus•
He is now Secretary of State for In- year was elected president of the Fed- sia and Ukraine,
the United States in September, 1917,
on another financial mission and upon
the death of Sir Cecil Spring- Rice, then
English Ambassador to the United
States, was appointed Ambassador and
High Commissioner
MPOI•I•004,..1 ■ •••••• ■••■■••
British DeclaraLon Favoring Jewish Stale
Made by HON. ARTHUR J. BALFOUR
With
approval of British War Cabinet, November 3rd, 1917
I;Iwerniiwill bees with Power the
title of n nittimull home for the .11-, ivli
to fneillInte the achleteinvid I ti Illia
it
rib,
slideti‘thes
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■IININNNIMM
toe
"Both In um , 111611- and prism.. captivity I wnrulic support Ow I...et:mutton of his NlaJesly's
establishment In l'ale•-thie of 0 Nn I ilintil Ilowe for the Jeltivti
"I lint e itiornover been prilfoillidly
11, 011 , 'd nay
In t
bythe Splendid ellerg.i of dm
,
it ernment Is ht•
„,
',look., and by t h e Cl boy
(hi,. to no small eVliiIit tinder their leadership, Ilie Jett isle pcitl.. of the I'lehltd sates hat e diroph
Iheitisehes Into the war. Though I feel dint the ninny I hi , usunds of Jews iiii
I. nie 4111 sic.) indIvIduall) lit the
armies of the rolled Slides mid of the Allies tire serelnir the Vans(' of
par-
ilS wnu eon . I nw
th . ntarly Interi,ti.i1 In the Jewish nulls which ore heing recruited on both sides of
the Atlantic.
It would he
nuigulllrrnt If some of them could strike a blow for the freedom of IL. , world lu the hind of our snri,tors.
inciinilum. I gin glad to think that Palestine Isbelng numbllllnled, Men While the Nenr eontinilev.
by
Motley and Jewl•di energy, and am V.:pedal 1p pleased to be In 1111. Clint rY whirl,
has protIde4 ao
' ,leg.. n ishrt of that money and no small amount of that energy. My good wishes are with the Zionists of
Ike
States in the great work that is before them In giving effect to the lIeelaratIon of the ttaveriniu!nt
ud I shall esteem anything that I may be milled upon In 110 In Vonneellon with tout work
's not the bast honor.
not or the !rust salisfaciory part of my duties as British Ambassador In M'ashIngton."